MAGA erupts as Pope Leo meets with Bad Bunny

The Vatican has confirmed that Puerto Rican singer, Bad Bunny, held a private audience with Pope Leo on June 8 at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, and MAGA did not take the news well.

Rich Raho Teacher-Theology Department at DePaul College Prep of the Lake Chicago, made the announcement on X, saying the meeting took place after the pontiff's gathering with the Madrid Archdiocesan community. The Catholic News Agency similarly confirmed the meeting. But before the end of the day on June 9, MAGA posters were already slamming the meeting.

“Just wonderful, the Pope hanging out with a gang-banger,” claimed one MAGA critic, before his post was buried on X by angry hecklers.

“Wait til you find out who Jesus hung out with ... also Bad Bunny isn't a gang banger,” one X user retorted.

“Not a gang-banger, weirdo,” replied another.

“The Chicago democrat pope meets with anybody. He's wonderful,” insisted another on X.

“So Pope Leo would rather have a meeting with Bad Bunny who promotes degeneracy than visiting the African countries where Christians and Catholics are being murdered by Islamists? Ok. Got it,” yowled another critic.

But the pope has his own standing on X, and his fanbase immediately pounced.

“Such a stupid uninformed comment,” one of them barked in reply on X.

MAGA’s hostility toward Pope Leo stems from the one-sided rivalry President Donald Trump has imposed on the Vatican.

In April, Pope Leo XIV chronicler Christopher Hale said he had confirmed that Trump’s Pentagon threatened to declare war on the Vatican. In January, the White House issued a threat behind closed doors at the Pentagon, when Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre — Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States — and delivered a lecture, said Hale.

“America has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world,” Colby and his associates informed the cardinal. “The Catholic Church had better take its side.”

As the room temperature rose, Hale said he confirmed that one U.S. official “reached for a fourteenth-century weapon and invoked the Avignon Papacy, the period when the French Crown used military force to bend the bishop of Rome to its will.”

Hale said the report confirmed that the Vatican had reason to decline the Trump-Vance White House’s invitation to host Pope Leo XIV for America’s 250th anniversary in 2026 two weeks after the confrontation.

But the pope remains a much more popular figure than the combative president, and columnists noted Trump appeared to go down in a bitter trample of screeching beneath the wheels of the papacy.

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